[Publib] 1st Amendment Rights

[Backwage at aol.com]

Without regard to the merits of health care, nationalized or otherwise, I'd 
 like to mention a few things:
 
1.  As usual, librarians show their deep concern for matters  
Constitutional.  
2.  And that it takes very little in the way of a threat to personal  
liberties to excite them.
3.  Not to mention that this sort of response shows nearly everything  you 
need to know about librarians, to wit:
 
They will kill themselves for principle, but be killed themselves by  
down-to-earth situations which do not excite their interest.  
 
I swear, if you wanted to gather all the librarians in one place in the  
nation, all you would have to do was say somebody was trying to ban a  book.  
On the other hand, librarians would let their pay and benefits fall  to 
nothing and do nothing about that.  They always have; they probably  always 
will.  
 
Years ago (how time passes) there was a brief ado at ALA about librarian  
salaries; that is dead and gone away.  Librarians don't care:  not  about 
themselves; not about tomorrow's librarians.  They are going to kill  what's 
left of the craft by making it pay about what the Peace Corps does.  
 
I think that librarians have this sort of martyr problem.  Except that  
they intend to starve themselves, very slowly, rather than burn at the  stake.  
Or perhaps they're saving that fate for the day when they can  jump on the 
banned books pyre.  
 
Always so selfless!  Always so concerned!  But would you advise  your own 
children to take your path, to work in New York's underpaid public  
libraries, let's say?  My advice is that you forget national issues, let  the threat 
of Big Brother go to someone else's care for a season, and start  
complaining about the fact that you can't afford a second pair of shoes.  
 
M. McGrorty
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